What a title, eh? A lot has happened in the past month and half. One of my best friends here, Christle, was having a hard time and getting triggered by things occurring at her site so she decided to Medically Separate from Peace Corps. (there are many ways to leave, Medically Separate, Medically Evacuate, Administratively Separate, Early Termination, etc etc.) This was a hard decision for her and a hard time for Kelsi and I to see her leave, although we supported whatever she wanted. We went with her to her island and helped her pack and say bye to her host family. It was sad. Really sad.
Christle with all of her stuff
Waiting for a boat back to Parika from Wakenaam
Kelsi, Christle and I had a mini thanksgiving together with chocolate cream pie and popcorn! The best with the best!
Education had an IST, in-service training, surrounding literacy and best practices. It was great to get back together with the Education volunteers. We were at the Grand Coastal Hotel for a couple days and they had a separate Annex for the volunteers where we basically lived in a big house together for a couple days. It was like Real World: Peace Corps, so fun! Wish we could do our service from there all together. My counterpart from Laluni, Miss Cindy, came with me and we both really enjoyed the sessions and learned a lot!
Our IST happened over Thanksgiving so we had a little celebration with our counterparts and all the volunteers. It was nice to be together and talk about what we were thankful for.
GUY 30 Education!
Trying to explain Thanksgiving to Grade one and two! We made hand turkeys and they were pretty cute about all of it!
The past two weeks haven't been the greatest. I had a little accident in Laluni, where one of my stairs broke and I fell through and hit my knee, head and hurt my back. The Peace Corps nurse had to come in and get me and take me to the hospital. Luckily nothing was broken, just bruised and sprained. I've been staying in a hotel in town getting better and while at the hotel I got a staph infection in my armpit. The nurse thinks I scraped my arm on the wood and then got infected somewhere because of that. My friend, Kelsi had two on her legs so we've been keeping each other company with our misery and ailments. Thankfully I'm feeling better although my knee is still pretty hurt. I'm trying to rest it and get it better before we are supposed to hike to Kaiteur, a famous waterfall in two weeks. Cross your fingers!
"If you think small, your world will be small, if you think big, your world will be big." -Paulo Coelho
Hand turkeys around the world! The best way to accurately describe American Thanksgiving, always. 🇺🇸🦃
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